Dozens of public homes could be sitting empty for about three-and-a-half months at a time while their tenants serve time behind bars, new figures show, but the Housing Department has defended its stance on the situation.
Police will soon be armed with hi-tech night vision cameras to crackdown on hoons, with new covert technology to be rolled out across the state, The Sunday Mail can reveal.
A councillor and a registered nurse are tipped to throw their hats in the ring for Labor preselection in the must-win seat of Mundingburra after the two-term sitting MP announced she was bowing out of politics.
A trip from the heart of the Brisbane CBD to this island paradise will take just 40 minutes on a new ferry service being tipped as a “game changer” for tourism in southeast Queensland. Find out when the first stage is expected to be completed.
A COVID-19 testing clinic will be set up on Russell Island today after the state’s latest case of coronavirus was detected there. The new case is a close contact of a known case and travelled on the ferry to the mainland multiple times for three days while “possibly invectious”.
An emotional Annastacia Palaszczuk has hit back at “intimidating” criticism over her handling of border restrictions and says she is motivated by support from Queenslanders.
Despite Queensland recording no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said the state “is not out of the woods yet” and has confirmed a new NSW town has been added to the ‘border bubble’.
Tough new law changes will mean suspected Queensland criminals could be forced to hand over cash and tainted property without the need for a conviction. Here’s how the proposed laws will work.
A multi-million dollar plan has been hatched to build a new and improved bridge to popular southeast Queensland tourist destination Bribie Island in one of the state’s most marginal electorates.
A third student from Staines Memorial College has tested positive to COVID-19. They along with a healthcare worker are the two latest cases in Queensland and both part of a growing cluster in the state’s southeast.
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